Thank You for your answers and your valid critique (aka rants) > In your document, you failed to mention Tomcat version, JRE version, or OS > version. I'm going to assume that from the following path > > /opt/narahari/paas/webapps > > that you're running on some sort of Linux / UNIX / MacOS (ie, not Windows). >
Yes to the above sentence, I am on SLES 11.2 > > I'm going to further assume that you're running a version of Tomcat > downloaded from tomcat.apache.org (probably a bad assumption), and that > you're running some variant of Tomcat 7 (probably a less bad assumption). > Yes apache-tomcat-7.0.37 from tomcat.apache.org for the above sentence. > > For those people who didn't read the linked document: > > Here's what you tried: > > <Context docBase="/opt/adp/paas/**webapps/ptl" > antiResourceLocking="false" /> > > <Context docBase="/opt/adp/paas/**webapps/ptl#cts" > antiResourceLocking="false" /> > > And your complaint is: > > sh$>/opt/narahari/paas/adp-**tomcat/work/Catalina/**localhost/ptl_cts > /WEB-INF> ll > total 8 > drwxr-x--- 4 virtual wheel 4096 2013-06-27 14:01 classes > drwxr-x--- 2 virtual wheel 4096 2013-06-27 14:01 lib > > None of the other stuff is getting unpacked. > > 1. Why are you looking in the WORK folder? > For the above question, I really dont know why but colleague said that wars are unarchived there. So I presume from your answer it is of no value to look there. 2. Why are you using such a convoluted way of deploying your apps? > Not really convoluted, we want to put our wars outside of tomcat's inbuilt webapps dir (another team owns and installs tomcat and not as root) > 3. Are you running your Tomcat as root? (don't do this) > For the above question , no it is not run as root. > From the fine Tomcat documentation > > http://tomcat.apache.org/**tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.**html<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html> > http://tomcat.apache.org/**tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.**html<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html> > > there are two things to note. > > 1. docBase is only valid if it points to a location outside of the > Host's appBase > For the above, are you saying that docBase should point to folder other than <Host> element's app base location (in my case it is appBase="webapps" ) and my docBase=/opt/narahari/paas/webapps which is outside of CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME folders. > > Failure to do so will result in partial deployments, double deployments, > and all sorts of unpleasantness. I haven't actually tried breaking the > rules, so I don't know exactly what happens. > > 2. WAR files outside of appBase are not exploded > > This was changed in Tomcat 7 (see the following - > http://tomcat.apache.org/**migration-7.html#Deployment<http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-7.html#Deployment> > ) > > In short, the docBase must point to either the WAR file or an exploded > directory. > > Again, if a docBase is used, it must point to a location outside of the > Host's appBase. If it points to a directory, the web application must be > exploded. Otherwise, it must point to a WAR file, and the application will > be run from that WAR file. > > For the above point, I put the artifact as a WAR file in the /opt/narahari/paas/webapps folder but when tomcat starts and tries to to run from the ptl#cts.war, I see the following error. Our app is trying to read WEB-INF/faces-config.xml (JSF app) but error occurs as below. 16:04:22,878 INFO [ConfigServlet] com.alp.rev.config.ConfigServlet.init(): Entering. 16:04:22,878 INFO [ConfigServlet] com.alp.rev.config.ConfigServlet.init(): FILEINPUTSTREAM VERSION 1.0 16:04:22,878 INFO [ConfigServlet] com.alp.rev.config.ConfigServlet.init(): configFiles = [/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml] 16:04:22,878 INFO [ConfigServlet] com.alp.rev.config.ConfigServlet.init(): Full path to Faces configuration file [null] 16:04:22,878 ERROR [ConfigServlet] com.alp.rev.config.ConfigServlet.init(): Error trying to read file [null]. Exception = [java.lang.NullPointerException] java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:116) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:79) at com.adp.revit.config.ConfigServlet.init(ConfigServlet.java:59) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1280) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1088) Thank you for your help and suggestions on incomplet information when I posted. -Narahari PS: On the other hand, if I manually expand ptl#cts.war manually and then point to expanded folder in the docBase attribute, I dont see exceptions. Just a point for your reference
